An Uncertain Shore (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781979948197)

Vendor: David H. Walker
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Format: Paperback
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An Uncertain Shore

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An Uncertain Shore

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The narrator of 'An Uncertain Shore' returns to the coastal haunts of his youth after a traumatic bereavement, hoping to find solace for his grief by reliving elements of his past. He is soon forced to recognize all that separates him from those he once lived among, but he meets a woman painter and is drawn to her and her distinctive art, learning about her background and her ambitions and sharing with her the cause of his depression. He also becomes involved in the schemes of a maverick journalist, bent on defeating a shady corporation which threatens an ecological calamity in the region. The two new acquaintances intersect unexpectedly, with fatal consequences. But these events in turn prove the trigger for a revived campaign against the corporate menace, led this time by the painter and a woman from the narrator's past, who recruits a band of female militants with an unconventional approach to direct action. (Second edition revised 2024.)

Author: David H. Walker
ISBN-10: 1979948194
ISBN-13: 9781979948197
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2017
Pages: 354
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.74d
By David H. Walker
By David H. Walker
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David Walker is Emeritus Professor of French from a British University, an internationally recognized specialist on the literature and culture of France, and author of numerous critical books, including 'Outrage and Insight: Modern French Writers and the "fait divers"' and 'Consumer Chronicles: Cultures of Consumption in Modern French Literature'. He writes in both French and English, and is well-known in France and beyond as a leading expert on the writings of Albert Camus and André Gide. His first work of fiction, 'Migrating Voids', was inspired by the Fylde, where he grew up, on the north-west coast of England. It was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement as an 'Ambitious first novel ... meticulously crafted'. 'An Uncertain Shore', though not in any sense a sequel, draws on the history and landscapes of the same region.

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